About Us

Earley Ornamentals - Committed to Quality

Specialists at helping you stay ahead

Delivering reliability, expertise and an extensive range of first class young plants, Earley Ornamentals is a leading UK producer providing a flexible service for growers looking to stay ahead and meet the needs of today’s challenging retail environment.

With time poor consumers chasing instant colour and garden spaces changing year on year, consumer behaviour and buying trends are evolving.

Particularly mindful of both the environment and economic climate, our in-house product, production and customer service team all understand current demands and we pride ourselves on being the first-choice young plant supplier for many of the UK's leading commercial and retail growers.

Extensive range of high-quality young plants

Today, over 180m young plants, made up of 1,700 varieties, are grown each year at Earley Ornamentals. In addition to being the UK's primary distributor of SunPatiens®, we offer an extensive range of young plants for all seasons.

Constantly focusing our product range to align with current market influences, we have introduced a host of additions in Earley’s 2018 Range Updatethat deliver bright colours and new commercial growing opportunities.

Growing our skills, facilities and our customer relationships allows us to evolve and remain one of the UK's leading independent producers.

We have been growing young plants at our 12-acre site near Thirsk, North Yorkshire since 1992. In 2009, after a successful management buy-out from international ornamental breeding giant Sakata, the company was purchased by its managing director, Simon Earley.

The two companies have maintained strong trading links, with Earley Ornamentals now one of Sakata's preferred distributors in the UK.

The Science behind Earley

With an ongoing progressive programme of investment, innovation and development in place, the technology behind our state-of-the-art site is evolving constantly, enabling us to deliver quality plants.

Here's an overview of the process:

Committed to Quality forms the root of our business strategy here at Earley. These are the elements we build on daily to make that happen.

Expert knowledge and support when you need itAs an independent company, we've built up a team of experienced, dedicated and knowledgeable experts who show long-standing commitment to giving our customers excellent service.

Better business relationships all roundWhether it’s our valued customers or our close network of suppliers, we believe in total transparency where growing regulations are concerned.

Furthermore, two-way communication is key and we are committed to working as partners, advising and accommodating both customers and suppliers at all times.

We maintain high standards

For consistently reliable young plantsAs an accredited grower under the British Ornamental Plant Producers scheme, we ensure high standards are maintained consistently here at the nursery.

An environmental computer controls temperature, humidity, light and venting in all of our glasshouses.

Climate controlled despatch and delivery

You receive the freshest plants in the best conditionNationwide deliveries, wherever possible, are made in our own temperature-controlled fleet of lorries to ensure our customers receive the freshest plants in the very best condition and of course, on time.

A number of the vehicles in the Earley fleet have tail-lifts for easy access and Danish trollies are used for swift loading and off-loading.